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Hello, friends. Happy Thanksgiving if you are here in the United States. I know it's not Thanksgiving everywhere in the world, but here in the United States, tomorrow is Thanksgiving. My mom is coming to visit. We'll have my wife's family here. So always look forward to this time of year. It's just the holidays are fun. My wife, of course, already has the Christmas tree up if you follow me on social media. You saw a picture last week. Day after Halloween, in fact, for her and I with our Christmas tree, I was actually just doing my Miracle Morning right next to it. But, and she snapped a photo. Today we're talking about gratitude in a way that you may have never thought of it before. I might actually title this something controversial, like, you know,

you're doing gratitude wrong or something like that because I wouldn't say there's a right or wrong

way to do it. I think there's value in experiencing or expressing gratitude in any way. It's kind of like

exercise. Like if you do any exercise, it's better than no exercise, right? But with gratitude,

there's at a high level,

or in essence, the difference between what I call intellectual gratitude and heart-centered

gratitude. And intellectual gratitude is where I think most people, if they do practice gratitude

at all, that's where they practice intellectual gratitude. And what that is is it's where

you, you know, you think about if I were to ask you what you're grateful for, you would list the things off, right?

I'm grateful for my health. Check. It's literally like checking things off. Most people approach

gratitude as, you know, a mental exercise, if you will. So they think about what they're

grateful for. They write a few things down. So they think about what they're grateful for.

They write a few things down.

Maybe they check that box.

And there's something wrong with that.

In fact, it's where many of us begin.

But again, what I call intellectual gratitude is when you think about what you're grateful

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